loafer UK /ˈləʊfə/US /ˈloʊfɚ/noun 4verb 1forms 3 noun4 •A shoe with no laces, resembling a moccasin.Someone must explain to Sunak about the time bomb ticking beneath his £1,000 loafers. — 2023 •An idle person. •(dialect, US) A wolf, especially a grey or timber wolf.The great menace to livestock, other than the continual battle with cold, [...] was the gray wolf. [...] The big loafers came in from everywhere. — 1964 •A particular orthogonal spaceship in Conway's Game of Life that moves at a speed of c/7, and the smallest such example. verb1 •(dialect) To loaf around; to be idle. formsloafered · loafering · loafers